Stan Posted April 25, 2015 Posted April 25, 2015 Quote If you receive benefit to being here please help out with expenses. https://www.paypal.me/clubadventist Administrator of a few websites like https://adventistdating.com
Members rudywoofs (Pam) Posted April 25, 2015 Members Posted April 25, 2015 how about 15 +15 ?? Quote Pam Meddle Not In the Affairs of Dragons; for You Are Crunchy and Taste Good with Ketchup. If we all sang the same note in the choir, there'd never be any harmony. Funny, isn't it, how we accept Grace for ourselves and demand justice for others?
Administrators Gail Posted April 25, 2015 Administrators Posted April 25, 2015 But you need 3 numbers... Naomi 1 Quote Isaiah 32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
Members phkrause Posted April 25, 2015 Members Posted April 25, 2015 how about 15 +15 ?? I was thinking the same, but than read where it said, fill the boxes!! On second thought, it doesn't say that you have to fill "all" the boxes?? Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Administrators Gail Posted April 25, 2015 Administrators Posted April 25, 2015 Touché! Quote Isaiah 32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
Moderators Bravus Posted April 26, 2015 Moderators Posted April 26, 2015 I think it's mathematically insoluble, as set up. Adding three odd numbers together will never yield an even number. If it was possible to add a minus sign, it would be easy... B/W Photodude and Naomi 2 Quote Truth is important
B/W Photodude Posted April 26, 2015 Posted April 26, 2015 I think it's mathematically insoluble, as set up. Adding three odd numbers together will never yield an even number. If it was possible to add a minus sign, it would be easy... I would assume that the solution was that it was unsolvable. Quote >>>Texts in blue type are quotes<<< ***************************************************************************** And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. --Shakespeare from Hamlet ***************************************************************************** Bill Liversidge Seminars The Emergent Church and the Invasion of Spiritualism
LifeHiscost Posted April 26, 2015 Posted April 26, 2015 11164822_855007601239042_4365401181953467949_n.jpg No! God is Love! Jesus saves! Outta Here 1 Quote Lift Jesus up!!
Renegade Posted April 26, 2015 Posted April 26, 2015 It cannot be solved using whole numbers, but it can with rational numbers, for example: 1.5 + 15.5 + 13 There are various other combinations that will also work. Quote
Stan Posted April 26, 2015 Author Posted April 26, 2015 The trick must be in the wording of the question. LifeHiscost 1 Quote If you receive benefit to being here please help out with expenses. https://www.paypal.me/clubadventist Administrator of a few websites like https://adventistdating.com
Stan Posted April 26, 2015 Author Posted April 26, 2015 Box 1 - 15 Box 2 - 13 Box 3 - 1,1, ? Quote If you receive benefit to being here please help out with expenses. https://www.paypal.me/clubadventist Administrator of a few websites like https://adventistdating.com
Members phkrause Posted April 26, 2015 Members Posted April 26, 2015 Box 1 - 15 Box 2 - 13 Box 3 - 1,1, ? If that is OK to do?? Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Moderators Gregory Matthews Posted April 26, 2015 Moderators Posted April 26, 2015 Or: 11,13, 7-1= 30 Quote Gregory
Stan Posted April 26, 2015 Author Posted April 26, 2015 it says fill the boxes..... no real limit... Quote If you receive benefit to being here please help out with expenses. https://www.paypal.me/clubadventist Administrator of a few websites like https://adventistdating.com
Liz Posted April 26, 2015 Posted April 26, 2015 9,9 + 7 + 5 = 30 Is only one solution, it says you can fill the boxes and that you can repeat the numbers. So there are multiple solutions to this problem. LifeHiscost 1 Quote For what will a man be profited, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his soul? Mat. 16:26Please, support the JDRF and help find a cure for Type 1 Diabetes. Please, support the March of Dimes.
Moderators Bravus Posted April 26, 2015 Moderators Posted April 26, 2015 Those solutions all imply an additional + or - sign within a box that isn't in evidence, so I think they're pretty shaky, even if we allowed more than one number per box. Jeannieb43 1 Quote Truth is important
Moderators Bravus Posted May 2, 2015 Moderators Posted May 2, 2015 Someone got me thinking - we're assuming these are normal base-10 numbers. Perhaps in some other number base it can be solved? If it is in 'base-x', then '30' is just 3x. Single digit numbers are just themselves, and double digit numbers are x+{the second digit} since they only go to 1 in the left-most digit. So, for example, if it's in base-3, the answer on the right is 3x3 = 9 in decimal. 1 + 3 + '11' (which is 4 in decimal) = 8 in decimal, so it misses, and if we go to '13' (6 in decimal) it goes to 10 as the answer and still misses. Given that the number '15' can occur (as stated in the question), it's likely to be at least base-6 (digits 0 to 5), and maybe an even number will work better than an odd. In base-6, '30' is 18 in decimal. 3 + 7 + '11' (which is 7 in decimal) = 17 in decimal Hmm - still getting odd numbered answers from the left hand side, needing even numbered answers on the right hand side and still being able to only increment and decrement the left hand side in twos. Base-7 will give us an odd-numbered right hand side: '30' is 21 in decimal. 5 + 7 + '11' (which is 8 in decimal) = 20... d'oh! Now we have odd on the right and even on the left, and can *still* only jump in twos! We'll, I'm defeated there, but maybe my struggles will give someone else a helpful idea. Stan 1 Quote Truth is important
Moderators Gerr Posted May 2, 2015 Moderators Posted May 2, 2015 (edited) I think it's mathematically insoluble, as set up. Adding three odd numbers together will never yield an even number.If it was possible to add a minus sign, it would be easy... Oh, give it a few billion years and that might do it. (Sorry, Bravus, I couldn't resist that one. :)) Edited May 2, 2015 by Gerry Cabalo mis-spelled a word. Quote
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